As I said in my original post, I have asked Alan Agresti and he agreed. There is no problem about authorship.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:12 PM Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you’re not the author of the data, you can’t submit it as such. The > website has a copyright message on it which, while not definitive, doesn’t > suggest the use you’re proposing would be allowed. > > Bear in mind that you may expose CRAN not just yourself to liability if > you try to conceal true authorship. > > I’d recommend asking the author of that website for permission. Either he > says that’s fine in which case you have permission, or he doesn’t and you > dodge a bullet. > > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 2:45 am, Charles Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu> > wrote: > >> Actually the wooldridge package does not seem to satisfy any of the >> specific requests CRAN asked me for. I have checked several other CRAN >> packages for textbooks and they don't seem to satisfy those requirements >> either. So this seems to be a new idea from CRAN. >> >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure exactly what cran is asking for, but the wooldridge >> > package is a good example of a text book data set package, so maybe >> > you can use the same format they did. >> > >> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wooldridge/index.html >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Neal >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:08 AM Charles Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > I have a package that has the datasets for Categorical Data Analysis >> by >> > > Agresti that do not appear in the book. The whole package is a github >> > repo >> > > https://github.com/cjgeyer/CatDataAnalysis. All of the data were >> > > translated mechanically using the R script foo.R included in the repo >> > (but >> > > not in the package) from Agresti's web site >> > > http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~aa/cda/data.html. >> > > >> > > This package seems to be a useful service to students and teachers. >> The >> > > data >> > > are much simpler to use with this package than trying to get the data >> > from >> > > Agresti's web page (foo.R has 277 lines of code). >> > > >> > > When I submitted the package to CRAN, I got the following response. >> > > >> > > > The Description field of the DESCRIPTION file is intended to be a >> (one >> > > > paragraph) description of what the package does and why it may be >> > > > useful. Please elaborate. Tell the users what the datasets are about >> > and >> > > > what they contain so they can use them even when they haven't read >> your >> > > > book. >> > > >> > > > Please fix and resubmit, and document what was changed in the >> > submission >> > > > comments. >> > > >> > > In an alternate universe without copyright law this seems a reasonable >> > > request. In this universe it seems to be asking for trouble. I know >> > about >> > > fair use, but I am not a lawyer and do not want to walk the borderline >> > > between fair use and copyright violation. >> > > >> > > The package as it is seems OK because it comes from the author's >> public >> > web >> > > site and these data were never in the book. >> > > >> > > Please note that I made Alan Agresti (with his acquiescence) the >> author >> > of >> > > the package because it is his book and his data, but I (or rather >> foo.R) >> > > did all the work. >> > > >> > > I replied to cran.r-project.org, but that was apparently sent to >> > /dev/null. >> > > >> > > This book is IMHO the authoritative textbook on the subject. Amazon >> > sales >> > > rank agrees. The book is used for many courses. So this package >> would >> > be >> > > very helpful as is to many students and teachers. >> > > >> > > So what to do? Is there any way to get this package on CRAN? >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Charles Geyer >> > > Professor, School of Statistics >> > > Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science >> > > University of Minnesota >> > > char...@stat.umn.edu >> > > >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > > >> > > ______________________________________________ >> > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > >> >> >> -- >> Charles Geyer >> Professor, School of Statistics >> Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science >> University of Minnesota >> char...@stat.umn.edu >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
